Najib chided for AMAZING SILENCE over Deepak bombshells

Najib Razak

Despite the extensive coverage to the latest allegations on prime minister Najib Razak and his wife by a businessman, the UMNO president refused to clear his name at the party's 66th annual general assembly.

PAS information chief Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man said by ignoring the matter, Najib had allowed a good opportunity to clear his name to go to waste.

“The people were waiting for PM’s response in his winding speech, but he did not even touch the subject. Had the opportunity been taken give an explanation, it would reach many as his speech was given such wide coverage,” he said.

He opined that Najib's silence only fuelled suspicion at the same thing giving credibility to the allegations.

Carpet dealer Deepak Jaikishan spoke to several media recently on his relationship with Najib’s family and his involvement in getting a witness in the murder case of Altantuya Shaariibuu, private investigator P Balasubramaniam, to retract his statutory declaration claiming Najib's personal involvement in the saga.

Bala, who was hired as private detective by Abdul Razak Baginda, the former aide of Najib who was acquitted by the court of murdering Altantuya, issued the statutory declaration on July 3, 2008, before retracting it the next day.

In 2009, Bala claimed he had been paid RM5 million by Deepak to retract his first statutory declaration.

DAP advisor Lim Kit Siang meanwhile described Najib and Defence minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s silence on Deepak’s allegation implicating Najib’s family in a RM100 defence ministry project in 2005 as the most disturbing event in the just concluded UMNO annual congress.

“Haunting Najib at the 66th UMNO General Assembly was the ghost of Altantuya Shaariibuu. Why couldn’t Altantuya’s ghost be appeased?” he asked.

-Harakahdaily